A favorite spread of mine
I often use the Triangle Spread as suggested by Julia Sharman-Burke in her books. It consists of two cards per side, six cards in all, with a seventh card in the middle. The triangle is a tool often used in many disciplines to diagram relationships and problems. This spread has several great advantages:
1) Start by thinking of it as a "doubled up" three card spread. Instead of one card you have two cards. The pair of cards can offer a more sophisticated and specific meaning compared to just one card.
2) Using a relationship question as an example, the bottom/first side of the triangle might represent (Card #1) How you view the relationship and (Card #2) What you would like the relationship to provide. The right side, working upward might represent (Card #3) What your partner saw in the relationship, and (Card #4) what your partner would like from the relationship in the future. The left side, working downward, might indicate (Card #5) what needs to be worked on for the relationship to work better and (Card #6) what resources the two of you have to help you progress. The center card is the overall influence over each of the other cards and helps to unify the reading.
3) Using Robert Place's energy flow methodology (you need to refer to his book for a good explanation of this), you can use the center card with each of the pairs of cards to see how the pair can work together or how the cards in each pair individual support the center card or work against each other.
Because of the spread's "three part" nature, it is extremely adaptable to a great number of reading issues. As such, it works extremely well with the Fey Tarot because no matter what the querent's question, you can use one card in each pair to point to positive directions to take -- this fits with the general concept behind the Fey's creation. Dave